Victoria Christopher Murray will discuss her work, including her newest novel, at the Literacy Coalition of County's event on April 10.

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

The biographer’s ‘Joy Goddess’ (Scribner, June) explores the life and times of her great-grandmother A’Lelia Walker, the daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and heiress to the Walker hair care fortune.

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There will be featured readings from Harlem Renaissance writers Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jessie Redmon Fauset and Countee Cullen, as well as works from contemporary poets Amanda Gorman ...

"She should be the face of the Harlem Renaissance," Murray said of the ... Murray felt a connection to Fauset: Both are writers who have nurtured others in the field. The connection was so strong ...

World Bride Magazine is celebrating 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance and the neighborhood’s cultural impact with a Legacy Ball. Launched by WBM and the Renaissance New York Hotel, the Legacy ...

In 1923, when the Cotton Club opened, Harlem was in the midst of its Renaissance, but the Cotton Club was no beacon of progress. The club was strictly segregated—“It isn’t necessary to mix ...

Gladys Bentley, a luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, began her blues career singing at rent parties (held to raise rent money by charging attendees) and underground establishments in Harlem, New York ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

one of the leading writers and editors of the Harlem Renaissance. New York Times best selling author Victoria Christopher Murray didn't find the subject of her latest book, Jessie Redmon Fauset.